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Loose Lips
Britney Spears is super excited to be working with Madonna in a video segment for Madonna's upcoming tour, but she is excited in "a grown up way." What exactly does that mean? Like, she didn't pee her pants or something? • Famous boring person, John Mayer, once hooked up with a fan at one of his concerts. But this was "before cameraphones were around" because, since then, he has only been dating gorgeous celebs. • Angelina Jolie's hospital room in Nice, France reportedly has windows that have been coated with an insulating material to make it "impossible" for photographers to take photos. [People, People, Daily Express]
We'll Stick To Jane Fonda
Could Wii Fit be causing up to $40 million in damages for women? A recent survey by an insurance company found that women damage their homes — and themselves — when they work out from home. The flimsy cord on the Wii remote can break under heavy use and can sometimes be flung (accidentally, of course) into televisions, furniture, and precious Ming vases (like the ones lying around the Lodge residence whenever Archie comes over). But mostly woman seem to just hurt themselves, by bumping into furniture or pulling a muscle. Sounds like the Wii is not the problem — it's more a lack of space and proper training for the women practicing in-home workouts. [Daily Mail]
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Marketing Video Games To Women Almost Always Involves Pink
There was a piece on NPR today about marketing gadgets to women. Molly Wood, host of the CNET podcast "The Gadgettes," is one of the interviewees, and she tells NPR that one of her favorite gadgets marketed towards women is the Nintendo DS Lite. Wood describes it as not specifically designed for women, though it is "cute and small and portable." In addition, the games are "fun without being hardcore or alienating." Listening to Wood talk I realized I had seen the Nintendo DS ads already, but like a good capitalist pawn I only noticed that they featured America Ferrera, Carrie Underwood and Liv Tyler. I didn't even register what they were selling (except subliminally)! Anyway, the ad with Liv Tyler depicts the adorable actress lying on her bed in pajamas, cooing at a pink-hued game. I can't really tell what the game entails, but it IS markedly unthreatening. As many of our commenters and the legions of girlgamers out there can attest, a lot of women like games that are "hardcore" and don't find them "alienating." It's kind of insulting that Nintendo thinks it needs to show a superstar with her name bedazzled on her hand held game (yes, America's name is on her DS in rhinestones in her commercial) to sell it to women — don't worry, everyone, the DS comes in pink!. Liv's commercial is after the jump. More »
Vidiots
Um, this video "game," "Carrie The Caregiver," is supposed to be fun or something. Targeted at kids 6 and up, the point is to "feed, clean and soothe adorable babies." The new version, "Camp Funshine," involves helping campers with birdhouses and S'mores and crap like that. Maybe it's entertaining for little girls, but how come there's no "Lulu The Lawyer" or "Cece The CEO" game, huh? (Click to see mind-numbingly dull embedded video) [Packaging Girlhood]
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Neo-Nazis Beat Up Swedish Feminists • Disco Queen Alienates The Gays
Swedish neo-Nazis attack feminists at rally with metal pipes. • Desperate Afghan women are turning to prostitution to make ends meet. • New Lincoln biography attempts to portray both sides of his rocky marriage. • Two Belgian "beer fans" invent a 2-person peeing video game for urinals. • Speaking of video games, Gears of War 2 is being made more "girlfriend friendly" with easier settings and flatter-chested female characters. Whatever. • Born-again disco queen Gloria Gaynor gives up weed, alcohol, and gay fan base. • Author says that hypermasculinity surrounding guns scares off some women from gun culture. • Nerds have a love of hierarchies, rules, but not irony (sorry hipster geeks!). • Non-Arabic-speaking, New Jersey mom becomes a activist blogger focusing on political issues and free speech in Yemen. • Breadwinning wives resent their husbands who don't pitch in around the house. • The $599 Hello Kitty cell phone: to be coveted by little girls and immature adults everywhere!
Games People Play
Feministing points out that the brand-new, critically-acclaimed 'Grand Theft Auto' video game has lots of strippers and pole dancers in it. You can get a lap dance where the girl puts her crotch in your face. Also! As the trailer shows, you can pick up hookers and kill them immediately after having (explicit) sex with them. "Stay down or I will finish you off!" your character says after gunning down a prostitute. Blogger Samhita writes, "Given the popular nature of GTA, it is cool to be violent and kill prostitutes... Where does this put young women gamers? How do they feel when playing video games with such violent representations of women?" [Feministing, IGN]
hate male
"Abortion Man": The Worst, Supposedly-Funny Video You May Ever See
Are you ready for the most disgusting, insensitive, unfunny and offensive video you've ever seen? It's called "Abortion Man", and it comes to us via WayOutTV, created by comedian Damon Wayans "as an incubator to develop innovative television shows for the internet." (The video is embedded after the jump.) Salon's Catherine Price breaks it down: Basically, a young guy gets a call from his girlfriend, who reveals that she is pregnant. The guy mutters "Get rid of that shit," but then tells the young woman in question he's "enthused about the whole situation." He hangs up the phone, and, Ã la Superman, runs to the window and yells "Help!" Enter Abortion Man, who wears a T-shirt displaying a fetus with a line through it. Abortion Man comes to the rescue by accosting the young woman in question, saying "Ah-hah! I have you now, fiend!" and then punching her. In the belly. When she falls to the ground, he stomps on her. And a bloody fetus flies out, into the bushes. More »
Everything is spot on in this truly creepy PSA for child abuse awareness. The live action direction is subtle but powerful, and the texturing, animation and compositing of the tentacle are horribly convincing. The concept gets under your skin and sticks with you hours after the visuals have faded away.
Deciding how far to push the obvious reference to male genitalia must have been tricky. The spot wavers on both sides of the line—and I think that works very well.
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Gaming Industry Is Full Of Sexist Geeks
The editor behind MTV.com's Mulitplayer Blog has posted a series of interviews with women from all different areas of of the gaming industry in response to the internet humiliation of Assassin's Creed producer Jade Raymond (pictured). When Creed was released last month, Raymond was often in the public eye as she was actively promoting the game. Internet geeks 'round the world felt the need to weigh in on Jade, often denigrating her competence because of her attractiveness. The buzz reached a fever pitch when a website called Something Awful posted a defaming comic, which showed a cartoon named Jade fellating a trio of gamers, and according to our brother site Kotaku, it got worse from there. More »
Falling Out Of Style
Some people think that it's completely hilarious when models fall on the runway. Like these local news anchors, who can't keep themselves from guffawing while some poor, possibly malnourished girl's ankle twists and wavers like a dry leaf in the wind during a fashion show in Paris. [The Sun]
Some people think that it's completely hilarious when models fall on the runway. Like these local news anchors, who can't keep themselves from guffawing while some poor, possibly malnourished girl's ankle twists and wavers like a dry leaf in the wind during a fashion show in Paris. [The Sun]
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Is It Every Little Girl's Dream To Babysit? One Video Game Company Thinks So
Alice Taylor, a prominent gamer (and former nationally-ranked Quake player) blogs on a site called Wonderland. Her criticism of Ubisoft's new line of "girl-oriented" games that focus on "shopping, fashion, animals and babies" was inspired by a post on Kotaku and picked up by Boing Boing. Taylor admits that hugely popular game World Of Warcraft is at least 40% shopping, but says, rightly so, that shopping is not only what girls like. Ubisoft claims,Those games were really designed for young girls who are just looking for fun games and ways to explore their favorite hobbies... From what we've seen, [the girls] didn't mention anything about being a police officer.More »
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Yup, It's True: Girls Play Games
Online Media Daily says that in a Denizens of Digitivity survey, 44% of women said that they owned a gaming console, compared to 39% of men. The stereotype of the American gamer — 18-34, male, single and white — is not necessarily on target, claims the report. Between the Wii, Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo DS, there's a a rise in the female gamer. "The Wii has really caused a democratization of gaming, because that has opened it up to all generations and both genders," said Ann Mack, director of trendspotting for JWT.More »
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Okay, That's It Ladies: Time To Buy A Playstation 3
Men have some biological advantages over us: no periods, fewer reasons for needing toilet paper, the fact that baldness is so widespread that it has just become evolutionarily imperative that they develop identities apart from their looks... BUT. The idea that guys are just inherently better at processing certain sorts of information? (Ahem: how cars work?) It's all just shit they picked up playing videogames, according to a new study written up in the Economist. In the study, psychologists gave a series of aptitude tests to men and women, and the women performed particularly shitty at a game called "Odd Man Out," in which they were supposed to locate the thing that didn't belong in a particular situation. But then! The psychologists forced the women to play ten hours of Medal Of Honor: Pacific Assault. More »
the good, the bad & the ugly
The MTV Video Music Awards: Britney Spears' Outfit Wasn't The Worst Of It
Anyone who saw the MTV Video Music Awards last night knows that they ran heavy on bad and ugly and that very little good was anywhere to be seen. After the jump the best and worst fashions seen at last night's show, plus, a new category: the stupid!More »
a new obama girl video. transcription to come...
Pareene thinks Obama Girl is stupid. We think she is a genius, if not exactly good for like, the world. Discuss.
Gonna Take It To The Primary; I Like My Men Like I Like My Coffee
Pareene thinks Obama Girl is stupid. We think she is a genius, if not exactly good for like, the world. Discuss.
health
Weird Workout Video
It's kind of tough getting a new angle on the tired old format of the exercise video, but yet again, our friends in Japan have succeeded where few dared to tread. Exercise yourself to superhero powers! Complete with bonus sinister laughing masked man in tights!
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